What Is She Doing After Darshan?
8 Jan 2003
| Do you ever wonder what Amma does after finishing darshan?
In Sivakasi, after finishing darshan, Amma headed straight
for Anbu Illam, Her care home for the elderly located there.
She reached the place at 4.30. Even at that late hour, She
took time to greet the residents who had been eagerly awaiting
Her arrival. |
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They were all dressed in their finest clothes, as they were hoping
for a group portrait with Amma. It must have been a blissful moment
for the residents, who have come to Anbu Illam because they have
no one at home to care for them, or because they have been neglected
by their relatives, or simply out of their love and devotion for
Amma and their desire to live out their golden years in a spiritual
atmosphere.
| But even after Amma met personally with each of the home’s
residents, She did not see fit to retire to Her room. Her
sari still stained from giving darshan to 10,000 people that
night, She began visiting the residents' rooms, tidying up
here and there. Overall the rooms were well-kept, but Amma
found one room that was not very clean. She scolded the man
who is in charge of cleaning the residents’ rooms, saying
that the residents have no one to look after them, and to
look after them is service to God. |
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Amma then took up a broom, bucket, scrub brush and other cleaning
supplies and spent nearly an hour showing the man exactly how the
work should be done—brushing cobwebs out of the corners, dusting,
mopping the floor, cleaning each bar on the safety screen over the
windows, scrubbing clean the track in which the window slides. In
the process, Amma cleaned this resident's room until it shone with
the love and care She had lavished upon it.
| What does Amma do after giving darshan? Without taking
even a moment's rest, She goes on giving: loving, serving,
teaching—always by example—working tirelessly for
the upliftment of the whole world.
Only after travelling for several hours, stopping to serve
lunch to Her children, giving satsang, singing bhajans, giving
darshan to 10,000 people, attending to even the smallest details
of the tour's logistics, visiting Her care home and finally
cleaning it, did Amma go to Her room. Except that by then,
it was already morning, and another day had begun.
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